St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-31

an immense amount of reformation in this
city. which, Notwithstanding its name, is far
from being SANITY City.
DR. S. q. Smith pastor of the First NJ. e.
church. made the next address:
1t should be undersj God that this bill
recommends the low water mark OF the senti-
ment of the temperance people. and when
speak of the low water mark | would rem nd
the gentlemen who are professional politi-
clans that the tide is constantly rising. What
is high license? And what would be a fair
tax upon this traffic? These are the questions
we are asked. answer, certainl, not less
than the expenses it creates. If the saloons
were taxed upon this basis. there would not
be one running inside of six months But
there is even greater danger before
| which tremble. Speakers here have more
than limited at bribery, and il has almost
been received as thing to joke about. We
can stand IL to have more whisky than we
now have, but we cannot survive the fact
that our legislature can be bought and sold.
am told, on what believe to be reputable
authority, that $4,000 has been levied in the
city of Minneapolis upon the liquor side. The
saloon keepers of Saltwater have also been
levied upon in this great emergency, and not
alone the saloons of this city, but The cigar
firms as well, have been taxed and threatened
with a boycott ii they did not paT. Why this
money? Why $4,000 because high license is
before the legislature? 1t Simply means that
it is the faith or the saloon keepers that this
legislature can be bought. / 90 not believe
that it is so. In the legislature, and 10 both
houses, there are some honest men, and some
of the most warm hearted temperance men
| the state affords.
At the close of DIR. Smiths speech the
| following resolutions were presented by
! DR.. NJ. MEG. Dana, of the Plymouth Con-
gregatonai church, and adopted by rising
vote as the sense of the meeting;
Resolved, By the citizens of Minnesota in
! mass meeting assembled at the opera house
Jan. 80, 1887:
l. That we respectful call upon our rep
resentatives in this legislature now in session,
| to redeem the pledge made in the plat form
| adopted by the Republican convention held
in September last, by passing the high license
| bill now before both houses, recommended
by the joint committee, which bill we deem
the only fair expression of what was prom
| iSed at that time.
| 2. We deuouuce as dangerous to all honest
/ and honorable government the attempt to de-
| feat the popular will by such arts and arti-
/ fees as are now being used by the representa-
/ tives of the liquor traffic. Moreover, the
home, whose interests are so sacred, and
on whose sanctity our perpetuity as nation
depends, is openly aSSaled by the saloons
which this legislature was elected to curtai
J and make amenable to the laws of the state,
! and regardful of those rights of humanity
now utterly ignored.
g. We call upon all friends of practi-
cal temperance in our state to make their
! influence felt in favor of the pending bill.
and 10 urge in every honorable way their
! representatives to resist every compromise
| b. which this high license measure MY De
! jeopardized, and to act promptly and unit
| eddy in passing the same, b. which the faith
of the party's public promises made will be
! redeemed and Minnesota liberated from the
! longer dominance of the ring which is now
the organized pro q ldiSt OF the rum
| traffic and the conspI~ uOus opponent OF the
| legislation now proposed.
The last speaker was Hon. Alden j.
Blethen, of the Minneapolis Tribune. He
sad;
One thousand dollars is not high license for
| ST. Paul and Minneapolis. 1t is no more than
! it should be. and $500 Tor all other towns out
| side or Minneapolis is certainly low enough.
| Give every town and village local option, AMI
if sou will prevent it. in Co.'s name let it
prevent. l do not, however, believe there is
| a member of the legislature OF Mil -sota
| that can be bought. If there be, then GER
| tainly he cannon have read in the newspapers
| the telegraphic dispatches from New York
city. New York city has her Doodle alder
men-that is she did have tnem-Sing Sing
has part OF them now, and there will be a
place found for booile Legislators OF Mime
| sofa.
The audience cried for ''Donnelly," but
the learned sage was not present. The
meeting broke up with the singing OF
Amer ca" and benediction by DR.. Dana.